Category: War
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‘Fighting But No Progress’ in Libya’s Capital. Inside the Surreal Siege of Tripoli | Time
‘Fighting But No Progress’ in Libya’s Capital. Inside the Surreal Siege of Tripoli While the world’s attention has been everywhere else, Libya remains in chaos. via Time: http://time.com/longform/tripoli-libya-siege-khalifa-haftar/ Magnum photographer Lorenzo Meloni first went to Libya after the uprising that led to the death of Gaddafi. His latest series of photographs from April and May…
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Seeing War Abroad and at Home Through the Eyes of Don McCullin – Feature Shoot
Seeing War Abroad and at Home Through the Eyes of Don McCullin – Feature Shoot Local Boys in Bradford 1972 Don McCullin – Near Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1961 Londonderry 1971 At the age of 83, British photojournalist Sir Don McCullin decidedly declared, “I’m not an… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/04/seeing-war-abroad-and-at-home-through-the-eyes-of-don-mccullin/ At the age of 83, British…
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Nihilistic Photojournalism? Don McCullin at Tate Britain – Disphotic
Nihilistic Photojournalism? Don McCullin at Tate Britain I went to Don McCullin’s current retrospective at Tate Britain with some trepidation. Both in terms of the things I knew the exhibition would ask me to look at, but also in terms of the stance the … via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/nihilistic-photojournalism-don-mccullin-at-tate/ I went to Don McCullin’s current retrospective…
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Combat Obscura: Why the Marine Corps doesn’t want you to see this new documentary – The Washington Post
Analysis | The Marines don’t want you to see what happens when propaganda stops and combat begins A Marine videographer was tasked with recording positive spin in Afghanistan. But the camera kept rolling. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/14/marines-dont-want-you-see-what-happens-when-propaganda-stops-combat-begins/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ce1489d27b05 Lagoze found himself in a murky gray area of free speech and fair-use government products. U.S. citizens can…
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Beautiful Deaths – Witness
Beautiful Deaths On acknowledgement, narrative, and the representation of death in photography via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/1-beautiful-deaths-f631f98adb04 These are Goya’s Disasters of War, a series of 82 prints made between 1810 and 1820 that show the horrors of war and its aftermath during the Spanish Napoleonic Wars. They are etchings, not photographs, but they are complete in…
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The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now – The New York Times
The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now A celebrated book and a major museum exhibition revealed the harrowing tale behind the image of a wounded Marine. Their version was wrong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/19/magazine/vietnam-war-photo-wounded-marine.html A celebrated book and a major museum exhibition revealed the harrowing tale behind the image…
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‘Everyone was leaving, and we were trying to get back in’: A photographer remembers the end of the Soviet Afghan War – The Washington Post
Perspective | ‘Everyone was leaving, and we were trying to get back in’: A photographer remembers the end of the Soviet Afghan War Viktor Khabarov, a major in the Soviet military, worked among the troops as a photographer. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2019/02/14/everyone-was-leaving-and-we-were-trying-to-get-back-in-a-photographer-remembers-the-end-soviet-afghan-war/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.98d98bc6c3f9 Viktor Khabarov, 67, was a major in the Soviet military, working among the…
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How War Affects Photojournalists – Artsy
The Physical and Psychological Toll of Photographing War Photojournalists bear witness, but at what cost? via Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-physical-psychological-toll-photographing-war Even when photojournalists return from war zones physically unscathed, their experiences can continue to burden their psyches. They might suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or anguish over their roles in witnessing human tragedy. But they do so…
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Beyond war with conflict photographer Yuri Kozyrev
Beyond war with conflict photographer Yuri Kozyrev Coffee and conversation in Moscow with one of the great conflict photographers of our time. via Roads & Kingdoms: https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2019/beyond-war-with-yuri-kozyrev/ He talked in Moscow with host Nathan Thornburgh, who worked alongside Kozyrev throughout Russia and the Caucasus while they were both at TIME magazine. They talked about the…
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Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley – The New York Times
Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley Diane Foley let the artist Bradley McCallum see her son’s unpublished journals. The result is a stunning memorial of war and its human toll. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/arts/design/james-foley-bradley-mccallum.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Mrs. Foley has a desperately keen understanding of what happens in a conflict zone. “Jim” was her son, the freelance…
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Beyond the Myth of the War Photographer – The New York Times
Beyond the Myth of the War Photographer In “Shooting War,” the psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores the complexity of photographers’ day-to-day work covering conflict and human depravity. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/lens/shooting-war-photograper.html The psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores this complexity in his book, “Shooting War” (Glitterati Editions). Starting with a single, striking image from each photographer, Dr. Feinstein profiles 18…
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Band of brothers: The lives and deaths of war photographers – CBS News
Band of brothers: The lives and deaths of war photographers The images and life examples of photojournalists killed in combat are being taught to a new generation of photographers Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lives-and-deaths-of-war-photographers/ In its own way, the South Bronx itself was a war zone back in the 1980s. “I got here in ’86 and it was…
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A Veteran Combat Photographer Recalls His Most Memorable Shots | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
A Veteran Combat Photographer Recalls His Most Memorable Shots Originally stuck in a darkroom, Jeremy Lock traveled the world capturing life on the front lines and the homefront via Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/veteran-combat-photographer-recalls-his-most-memorable-shots-180970776/ Originally stuck in a darkroom, Jeremy Lock traveled the world capturing life on the front lines and the homefront
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‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter – The New York Times
‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter The emotional testimony of the war photographer Paul Conroy dominates this heated and harrowing account of Marie Colvin’s last weeks. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/movies/under-the-wire-review-marie-colvin.html Piggybacking on the recent release of the based-on-real-life drama “A Private War,” “Under the Wire” — sewn together from on-the-spot footage and interviews with…
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Review: In ‘Under the Wire,’ war photographer Paul Conroy bears witness to a terrible loss – Los Angeles Times
Review: In ‘Under the Wire,’ war photographer Paul Conroy bears witness to a terrible loss The recent biopic “A Private War” explores the interiority of war correspondent Marie Colvin’s life. via Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-under-the-wire-review-20181115-story.html The recent biopic “A Private War” explores the interiority of war correspondent Marie Colvin’s life. But the documentary “Under the…
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Behind the Reporting: How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate – The New York Times
Behind the Reporting: How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate Robert F. Worth writes about the local networks that helped him and Lynsey Addario safely report on the war in Yemen. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/magazine/reporting-war-yemen-newsletter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Robert F. Worth writes about the local networks that helped him and Lynsey Addario safely report on the war in…
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Pets, Fruit and Shrapnel: 5k from the Front Line – Witness
Pets, Fruit and Shrapnel: 5k from the Front Line In this previous story on her commission for the eyeWitness to Atrocities app, Anastasia Taylor-Lind talked about truth in photography… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/pets-fruit-and-shrapnel-5k-from-the-front-line-79f20df6bc9e In this previous story on her commission for the eyeWitness to Atrocities app, Anastasia Taylor-Lind talked about truth in photography, the problem of…
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Lynsey Addario Is More Than a War Photographer | Vanity Fair
Lynsey Addario Is More Than a War Photographer In her first published collection of photographs, Of Love and War, photojournalist Lynsey Addario looks past her subjects’ impossible circumstances to show beauty and their humanity. via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/lynsey-addario-of-love-and-war-interview In her first published collection of photographs, Of Love and War, photojournalist Lynsey Addario looks past her…
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Hondros and Hetherington: Photographing the Liberian Civil War – The New York Times
Hondros and Hetherington: Photographing the Liberian Civil War A show at the Bronx Documentary Center reveals how Liberia’s civil war shaped the lives and careers of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/lens/remembering-hondros-hetherington.html A show at the Bronx Documentary Center reveals how Liberia’s civil war shaped the lives and careers of Chris Hondros and Tim…
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Women in war zones: Shooting the frontline when you’re not a middle class man
Women in war zones: Shooting the frontline when you’re not a middle class man It is April 1st, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Smoke rises from a recently fired mortar, and the atmosphere is eerily calm. Although far from the frontline, the area still carries risk. Egyptian photojournalist Asmaa Waguih is in Mosul to cover operations by…